Match Day Thread Stoke City v. Swansea City

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Mon-te-ro he'll make you **** your pants, he'll make you **** your pants, he make you **** your pants.
 
Solid draw. The thing that got us moving here was taking Britton off and putting Monty on. Britton was as poor as he has been - slow, outmuscled, sloppy in possession. Taking him off and leaving Fer and Cork to deal with Stoke's physicality was the turning point. We no longer had a passenger in the midfield consistently losing out. Monty obviously did his thing - constant attacking of his man and turning the opposition around, dragging a midfielder out of position whenever he got the ball as they felt the need to double-mark him. Against the bigger teams, I'm starting to feel like unless we're going to play on the front foot, Britton just isn't an option. If we're intent to play defensively, Britton should not be on the park.
 
We could still be playing tomorrow with the diamond and we still wouldn't score. We MUST play our wingers if we want to score goals. Barrow on one wing with Montero on the other is just ****ing lethal. Siggy in the middle with Palo up top. As much as I like Ayew, he just doesn't fit our system.
Good result in the end and hopefully a massive eye opener to Guido to once and for all ditch the pissing diamond!
 
We could still be playing tomorrow with the diamond and we still wouldn't score. We MUST play our wingers if we want to score goals. Barrow on one wing with Montero on the other is just ****ing lethal. Siggy in the middle with Palo up top. As much as I like Ayew, he just doesn't fit our system.
Good result in the end and hopefully a massive eye opener to Guido to once and for all ditch the pissing diamond!

Naughton needs to go back at RB instead of Rangel (he's finished for me, his legs have sadly gone) and Kingsley at LB.